Seminar Description

How to Increase Your Profits Seminar


"How to Increase Your Profits" is an informative and entertaining two-day seminar from Management Success! It is designed to open your eyes to the real profits that can be had in an auto shop and give you management help that you can take back to the shop and USE! This seminar will "put your hat on" as a shop owner and will show you the management skills required to run a profitable auto service shop in today's world.

What Are You Doing Right?You are inevitably doing a lot of things right. Sometimes only minor changes will make a business boom.

Reducing Stress
This is a stressful industry. Improving finances and employee situations will help, but we also cover how you can organize and handle other aspects of your business to minimize owner burnout. How to get vacation time.


Pricing
Many shops base their prices on what their competition is charging, resulting in low profit. Recognizing the value of good service and pricing it correctly based on costs plus profit.


Sales and Marketing
How to increase sales. The real job of a Service Writer. Getting in old and new customers. Making your advertising effective. Which type of marketing is right for your business. Building a large customer base.


Handling Customers
How to handle people without stress. Dealing with problem customers and price shoppers.


Using Computers
How to increase efficiency with a computer. How to use a computer in sales and marketing.


Hiring Qualified Help
How to find skilled technicians. What you have to know and do to attract and keep honest and hardworking employees. Tools for predicting how productive and responsible a potential employee will be.


Managing Employees
Who's in control? We'll review incentive plans that work, training, delegating responsibility and communication skills.


Increasing Production
Improving shop flow. How to increase billable hours (and profits) with fewer techs. The importance of quality control.


Increasing Profits
Why some shops don't make money. How to get 20% cash on your bottom line plus a salary. How to keep more of the money you make.


Managing by Statistics
Do you use guesswork to manage your shop, or make decisions based on your feelings? We'll show you how to improve the condition of your shop by using statistics, the most powerful management tool you will ever come across.


Being an Owner
What is an owner's job? Financial planning and goal-setting. The relationship between happiness and goals.


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